Hop to It! There’s Still Time to Bake Homemade Christmas Cookies: Why Not Start a Family Tradition?
December 23, 2008 by Anne
Filed under Anne Holmes, Blog, Food & Recipes
Gosh, suddenly it’s really looking like Christmas around here! How about at your place?
Here in Northwestern Illinois, we got at least seven inches of snow on Thursday, and then a few more on Saturday. Today, it is sunny and probably four degrees below zero – Fahrenheit – even before you take into account the blowing and drifting snow.
As far as I’m concerned, a day like today is just perfect. It’s the kind of day where you want to stay home, enjoy a fire in the fireplace if you’ve got one, crank up the Christmas carols on your stereo or iPod, and bake up some fabulous homemade Christmas cookies! You know, it’s a day to say: “Let it snow, I’m baking cookies!”
- If you’ve got kids or grandkids handy, be sure to get them involved in this cookie-baking action.
- Family cookie-baking is the stuff memories are made of. In fact, my late brother-in-law once declared that Christmas wasn’t worth coming home for unless there were homemade Christmas cookies! He personally preferred the cut out kind…
- To this day, my adult kids still try to get to their grandma’s house a few days before Christmas, just so they can participate in making the traditional holiday cookies!
